Arabella is a girl's name of Irish and Celtic origin meaning “yielding to prayer.” In 2024 it was given to 1,476 girls in the United States.
Arabella belongs to the Irish & Celtic and Greek tradition. Its meaning — “yielding to prayer” — is the sense carried by its Irish and Celtic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Arabella first appears in Social Security records in 1881. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #157 in 2017, and in 2024 1,476 babies received the name — 26,512 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Arabella means “yielding to prayer” in its Irish and Celtic roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Arabella is a girl name. In 2024, 1,476 babies received the name in the US.
Arabella comes from the Irish & Celtic and Greek tradition.
Arabella first appears in US records in 1881. Its best-ever ranking was #157 in 2017, and 1,476 babies were given the name in 2024.
Arabella is pronounced /æɹəˈbɛlə/ (IPA).
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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